The Chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Felix Obuah, has said he identifies with the staff of the state House of Assembly who protested at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Thursday over three years unpaid salaries.
Obuah described their situation as pathetic.
In a statement signed by Jerry Needam, his Special Adviser, Obuah said the protest by the aggrieved workers and the barricading of the gate of the make-shift House of Assembly at the Government House was justified and logical.
According to the PDP chairman, it is only a man with a heart of stone like Amaechi that can turn a blind eye to the plight of these workers for three consecutive years running, yet all the money for their salaries and allowances were duly built into the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 annual budgets.
What remains inexplicable, Prince Obuah said, is why Amaechi prefers to sacrifice these workers’ salaries at the altar of the All Progressives Congress sponsorship and campaigns, yet he has the effrontery to preach to same people he is oppressing and sending to their early graves to continue to support this agent of marginalization and suppression, the APC.
Nonetheless, Obuah wants the protesting Assembly workers to thread with caution, reassuring them that the incoming PDP government will as an urgent matter of public interest look into their grievances with a view to addressing and compensating them accordingly.
The PDP state chairman however warned against the mistake of falling into Amaechi’s snare by rejecting him and his APC candidates whom he has planted to continue with his draconian regime and mismanagement of state resources at the expense of the people.
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